The future of Fiber

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Post by lawdawg » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 6:23 PM UTC

The future of Fiber
fiber.google.com

Re: The future of Fiber

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Post by teach » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

It is hard to wait for signups to begin in Austin.

Re: The future of Fiber

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Post by jmgrosen » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 6:31 PM UTC

Got my hopes up there for a little bit... if only they came to Santa Barbara -- we have plenty of tech people here willing to pay for awesome internet! (and get away from Cox...)

I'll keep dreaming :)

Re: The future of Fiber

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Post by tostitos1979 » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 6:33 PM UTC

Wish they had Google Fiber in Toronto :(

Re: The future of Fiber

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Post by Deinos » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 6:35 PM UTC

Love to see challenges to the pathetic cable monopolies. I'd be willing to pay more than I am now if it meant sticking it to TimeWarner.

Re: The future of Fiber

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Post by kickme444 » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 6:39 PM UTC

Excited for Salt Lake City. We are growing our reddit office there a lot. It's a really exciting city to be in and this helps us a lot!

Re: The future of Fiber

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 6:41 PM UTC

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Re: The future of Fiber

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Post by dark_night_tim » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 6:41 PM UTC

Is mountain view count as San Jose?

Re: The future of Fiber

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Post by aetherson » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 6:42 PM UTC

I guess I fundamentally do not understand what makes a city a good or bad candidate for this kind of service. Why is SF or NY not an obvious candidate? Density means that there are lots of customers for a given physical length of infrastructure rollout, they're both wealthy cities with a large proportion of techies who could use faster internet...

I'm sure they're both nightmares to deal with permitting processes for. Is that it? Or is there something else that makes mid-tier, more spread-out cities more attractive?

Re: The future of Fiber

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Post by malandrew » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 6:42 PM UTC

Why not San Francisco, Washington D.C., Boston and NYC?

San Francisco, NYC and Boston because they are big tech hubs where a lot of Googlers live and Washington D.C. because it is the seat of politics in this country and the best way to show what good can happen when we have broadband connectivity.

In fact, rolling out Google Fiber in the capital cities of each state makes the most sense in general. You lobby the political class by giving their home base (state capitals) excellent broadband.